Oct 25, 2014 · Shred seems to be for wiping files. Which means it might well wipe the file but not previously deleted information on the disk. In which case I would not use it to wipe whole …

Sep 16, 2022 · But would it be possible to use to use shred as a source for zeros or random data and write this as a file to a hard disk? Shred can be used in the following way to create a data …

Jan 19, 2023 · Is overwrite/shred in-place? Since OP is discussing a single file, to overwrite the contents of the file (or shred or whatever you want to call it), we have to assume the file is …

May 1, 2017 · Not Windows-native, but likely to be already installed for many people reading this question: Git for Windows comes with its own ports of many common Unix utilities, including …

While securely erasing a hard drive before decommissioning I noticed, that dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda takes nearly a whole day, whereas shred -vf -n 1 /dev/sda only takes a couple of …

Apr 14, 2011 · When I used shred (default number of passes: 3) I let it do its 3 passes; when I use Eraser on Windows (default number of passes on a file: 35), I let it do its 35 passes. (Eraser …

And shred: [..] shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. [..] many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. Exceptions include: …

Apr 28, 2020 · I want to securely delete a file in a Windows NTFS partition from WSL2 The file can be accessed in WSL from /mnt/c/path_to_file will using shred /mnt/c/path_to_file actually …

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Jul 4, 2018 · Before resorting to shred, see if the drives support Secure Erase, which will make sure that all possible regions on the drive are erased. Despite all the talk about SSDs …